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Oct 16, 2026
Mike Maples Jr.GUEST
Yeah.
Mike Maples Jr.GUEST
So Lyft came around as Zimride in 2010, and it was introduced to us by Leah Buskey, who was the founder of TaskRabbit.
Mike Maples Jr.GUEST
So it was Anne's first investment was TaskRabbit.
Mike Maples Jr.GUEST
So Leah introduced Zimride to Anne, and we invested $750,000 at a $5.5 million valuation, about Two years in, they had this new idea that the iPhone 4S came out.
Mike Maples Jr.GUEST
And for those of you who remember, the iPhone 4S had a GPS locator chip in it.
Mike Maples Jr.GUEST
And so the Lyft guys said, hey, we've got an idea.
Mike Maples Jr.GUEST
We could go straight to peer-to-peer.
Mike Maples Jr.GUEST
We don't have to be a corporate campus commuting service like Zimride had been.
Vincent TurnerHOST
You know what it reminds me of is I, I was living in San Francisco when Lyft first launched.
Vincent TurnerHOST
And I don't know if you remember back in the day, but Lyft was originally a thing called Zimride that let you do car share rides-
Ari KimmelfeldGUEST
Yeah
Vincent TurnerHOST
... between major cities.
Vincent TurnerHOST
And like one of my friends was one of the very, very first drivers, like in the first cohort of drivers.
Ari KimmelfeldGUEST
That's cool.
Vincent TurnerHOST
And I remember getting into this, into this Lyft, and I texted the head, head of marketing at the time for, for Lyft, and I was like, "I guarantee you'll sell Zimride within a year." And in fact, pretty much a year to the week they sold, they offloaded Zimride.
Vincent TurnerHOST
So I'm like, made that call.
Matt Van HornHOST
I think she was still an undergrad at the time, too.
Matt Van HornHOST
And I was there with Logan and we were working on Zimride slash Carpool.
Dave MorinGUEST
Yeah, I mean, we tried to I think we had 100 exactly launch partners for Facebook platform after we had spent, I think, around nine months building it.
Dave MorinGUEST
And we tried to have really interesting, interesting partners, interesting use cases.